(INTO) THE MAELSTROM was born from the collaboration between three musicians and a visual artist who share a common desire to create live performances with the goal of developing a symbiotic relationship between sound and image. They are also motivated by the desire to bridge the gap between the digital and the analog. The result is an immersive performance that fosters interaction between the artists’ imagination and that of the audience.

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This performance acts as a revelator of what lies beneath reality—what is hidden in the interstices of the visible. Visible and invisible, analog and digital, virtual and real—this performance explores the possible relationships between these different elements. The music generates virtual images through frequency analysis. These images then become real through the manipulation of material within the stream of images. The introduction of randomness into the programming of the generated images, along with the digital manipulation of the drum and guitar sounds, provokes the unexpected—from which other forms of the visible may emerge.

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This performance brings to the stage the various forms of the visible that escape our gaze; the virtual and the unreal thus become another reality, like a multiplicity of parallel worlds.